Yongmin Hong <[email protected]> wrote:
> I once ran mw 1.19 in 2013 or before under the shared hosting service,
> since at that moment I was fully n00b about git, php(I'm still newbie when
> it comes to coding), and mariadb/mysql.
> Not everybody who is using mediawiki is tech-savvy like they know how to
> execute shell commands, how to secure their VM/Container against various
> attacks, etc etc <any unexpected/technical problems here>.
> PS. I'm not using shared hosting now. My Linode VPS is running Ubuntu 14.04
> LTS as of today, and I'm not going back to the shared hosting.
> [...]
Note Gilles's somewhat hidden clue that this might still af-
fect you:
| [...]
| The main questions I have for people in that situation are whether there
| are blockers for them to move to more modern vm-based or container-based
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| hosting platforms, or if they prefer to stay on shared hosting for specific
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| reasons, etc. Basically, tell us why you're on shared hosting for your
| mediawiki install(s).
So if your Linode VPS doesn't allow you to run VMs or con-
tainers, you might be forced to rent real iron if MediaWiki
would require virtualization in some form or another.
Tim
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